Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu merely stopped outside the Liu family's residence to observe before flying directly eastward.
Within a few minutes, they arrived outside the Huo family's domain.
The Huo family's situation was similar to that of the Kaitian Sword Sect.
All the tribulation-transcending ancestors were dead, and only a little more than half of the dispatched army had managed to escape back alive. The entire family was in complete disarray.
No elder in the family was willing to step forward to manage the chaos. Each of them, heavily injured, was focused on their own healing.
The family was in turmoil. The guest cultivators and Huo family disciples who harbored grudges against each other, now freed from the elders' control, had begun to fight amongst themselves.
Initially, it was those with animosity killing each other. The victors naturally claimed the lives of the losers, and the defeated’s wealth and treasures all became the spoils of the victors.
This kind of incident was relatively rare on the first day, but on the following two days, it had become a chain reaction, much like a butterfly effect.
Regardless of whether they had enmity or not, whether they were guest cultivators or clan members, they began to kill each other, with anything seized becoming their own.
Some guest cultivators, seizing the opportunity of the chaos, formed factions, creating considerable forces. Their targets were not other guest cultivators, nor even the clan disciples.
Their targets were the warehouses and treasure vaults in the various areas of the Huo family.
The warehouses contained vast amounts of spiritual treasures and valuables, while the treasure vaults held large quantities of spirit stones and elixirs. These areas were located in the outer periphery, where those who had pledged allegiance to the Huo family, the guest cultivators and hired muscle, resided.
The items in the warehouses were also meant for distributing as wages and rewards to them, so naturally, there wouldn't be too many.
These guest cultivator forces quickly plundered everything in the outer regions.
It was important to remember that although these items were meant for their rewards, before they were distributed, they were still the Huo family's property.
The Huo family clan members in the inner regions reacted immediately upon learning that the guest cultivators had plundered their outer warehouses.
They mobilized…
And plundered the inner warehouses clean.
Needless to say, the inner regions were the core of the Huo family. Compared to the inner core, the items stored in the outer treasure vaults and warehouses were but a drop in the ocean.
These items were things they could only covet on ordinary days. Now that the entire Huo family was in chaos, if they didn't stuff their own pockets now, were they going to wait until everyone else had taken everything?
Moreover, these were originally the Huo family's possessions. It was better for them to go to the clan members than to benefit those guard dogs.
The clan members of these great families, especially the direct descendants, looked down upon those outsiders they had recruited with utter disdain.
Some of these people had been newly recruited, while others had served the Huo family for hundreds or thousands of years. However, regardless of their contributions, as long as they didn't have the surname Huo, they were servants, outsiders.
How could good things be fed to dogs?
This was the common ailment of all great families.
It was also the natural conflict and opposition between guest cultivators and clan members.
Clan members needed guest cultivators to strengthen and protect them, while guest cultivators needed powerful families as their umbrella. They provided effort, and the great families provided money.
The two sides used each other, but as long as there was a vested interest, there would always be conflict.
This conflict, with the Huo family's defeat and the obliteration of their high command, had intensified to the extreme.
The guest cultivators believed that after serving the Huo family for so many years and fighting for them, they were at least half members of the Huo family. Therefore, the Huo family's assets should be split equally with them.
The clan members, on the other hand, believed that they worked for the family, and the family paid them wages; this was only natural. The master's possessions would always be the master's, and the servants had no claim to them whatsoever.
Thus, the conflict escalated. One day, all the guest cultivators gathered and surrounded the clan members' territory, vowing to force the clan members to hand over half of their treasures.
The clan members, meanwhile, stood ready, forming a tight formation, prepared to resist the guest cultivators' attack.
These were also defeated forces, but such issues had not even arisen in the Kaitian Sword Sect.
This was the fundamental difference between a sect and a family.
In these days, both guest cultivators and clan members had secretly fled. The guest cultivators in the outer regions fled directly. The clan members, unable to pass through the outer regions, could only escape using teleportation arrays. Regardless of where the teleportation array led, as long as it could be activated, they would flee first.
However, most people did not flee. They felt that with their own strength, they could still resist the counterattack of the Lei Di Alliance. If all else failed, surrendering would be acceptable, wouldn't it?
They were all people of the Lei Feng Realm, all major powers. The Lei Di Alliance wouldn't be so insane as to exterminate them completely, would they?
They would have to leave some people to continue the Huo family's lineage, wouldn't they?
At most, they would hand over some assets, lower their heads, and acknowledge vassalage. What else could they want?
"Great-grandfather, what should we do?"
A young Huo family clan disciple anxiously asked an elder in the center of the crowd.
This elder had white hair and beard, and his gaze was sharp. He was at the peak of the Mahayana stage, and was currently the strongest person in the Huo family in terms of cultivation.
During the previous major battle at the Yin Yang Sect, this elder had been quite shrewd. When he saw that the Huo family ancestors had all been annihilated, he had quietly left the battlefield, never waiting for the other tribulation-transcending cultivators and demon commanders to be wiped out.
Others had reacted a half-step slower, and many elders had died in the fierce counterattack by the Lei Di Alliance, while he managed to survive.
He was almost unharmed and was currently the strongest cultivator in the Huo family. Therefore, the Huo family clan members naturally looked to him for direction.
Logically speaking, with the Huo family having a leader, they should have been able to quell the rebellion and resolve the conflicts quickly.
But that was not the case.
When the guest cultivators outside were frantically dividing the Huo family's assets, he did not intervene. When the clan members did the same, he also did not intervene.
This was because he, Huo Xuanqi, was the one who had plundered the most treasures.
He had no desire to revive the Huo family. In his opinion, even if he became the Huo family patriarch, the Huo family's possessions would still be the Huo family's, not his own.
Becoming the patriarch only allowed him to skim a little money. Why bother with all the hard work and no gratitude when he could gain so much more now?
"A mob, mere ants and dogs. Dealing with them doesn't even require me to lift a finger."
Huo Xuanqi sneered and said,
"Issue an order: every clan disciple shall hand over ten percent of the treasures they have plundered to those guest cultivators."
"Ancestor, we're just giving them our things like this? Feeding the dogs like this? This… this is too much of a waste."
A young disciple immediately frowned.
When the items had not yet fallen into their hands, they did not consider them particularly precious. But after tasting the sweetness, they became unwilling to give up the juicy meat they had obtained to others.
A playful smile appeared on Huo Xuanqi's lips.
"You know nothing. Listen to my command. Throw the treasures in one direction, and let them snatch them.
It's not about scarcity, but about inequality. These people, a disorganized mob, are not united at all. The others will not stand by and watch those who obtain treasures leave safely.
What do you think will happen?"